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@Scrollone @BrilliantantTurd4361 Because it used to be a lot faster than postgresql for smaller sites. MyISAM (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MyISAM) was super lightweight, at the expense of the occasional corrupt database (oops).

I don’t know how many new people are coming to PHP these days (as opposed to javascript/python/rust/etc), but certainly the older PHP coders grew up using mysql.

@h333d @Holytimes Oh no, I write the same way! I can’t wait to be accused of being an AI the next time I publish something. 😂

@rimu @Dust0741 Also, even if openwrt stops supporting it… If you have a router or firewall or something in front of your access point, then running an old version of openwrt isn’t really that much of a risk if we’re talking about residential wifi w/out a lot of coverage.

And that’s assuming you’d want to stick with a model that openwrt has dropped support for. If they do drop support in a few years, you could buy a newer (better supported) older model again for $40.

@Vejeta Hi! Chromium maintainer here, just wanted to say that I appreciate the write-up (and the associated bug report followup). I have some paid work that will involve dealing with qtwebengine’s embedded chromium - I’m hoping to address both QT and CEF at the same time. Currently focused elsewhere, but I’m thinking in a few months.

@Coolcoder360 @lemming741 seafile has a fuse extension, at least: https://manual.seafile.com/latest/extension/fuse/

That said, I switched from seafile to syncthing and never looked back. Turns out I didn’t really need the web interface.

@rook To be fair, that’s an extremely zen attitude ChatGPT has - “Focus on the 5 healthy SAS drives.” Therapy goals! 😏

@tburkhol @rook Protip for Pi4B TV usage: if your TV has a USB port, you might be able to power the Pi from it. I turn the TV on and my 4B gets power from it, boots up, and starts Kodi (I’m using libreelec) automatically. When I turn the TV off, the TV hardware stays powered for like 5 mins before going into a low power mode which kills power to the Pi.

@communism @Natanox I’d argue the client itself has a fair bit of jank, though. Like, the background bubble color around text is too dark, it makes it look really ugly and dated. Pinned messages in a channel, when displayed at the top, literally overwrite each other. You’ll just have garbled/overlapping text.

Neochat looks much better out of the box (but neochat is also buggy w/ e2ee, dropping encryption keys randomly).

@tofu @Deceptichum I haven’t had problem with concrete walls, but the walls with metal lathe (& plaster) really do a number on wifi and cell signal. I’m guessing different kinds of metal lathe probably makes a difference, too; my prior house literally had chicken wire in the ceilings, my current house has more like a metal sheet with smaller holes punched out.

@BlindFrog @Feathercrown Same. I buy broken ones of the same model off ebay and use them for parts when needed, because I don’t want a newer vacuum with wifi. It *would* be nice to move off of NiMH batteries, but they’re good enough for now.

@mbirth @Knossos omg a fingerbot!

@Courantdair @eddyizm Two vowels and a consonant!

[I kid, I kid. Tempo development has slowed or stopped and has a number of outstanding annoying bugs. Tempus is a fork with more active development happening.]

@ArchEngel @Eirikr70 You can try it out by just downloading a client and registering an account on a free server. It’s all here: https://xmpp.org/getting-started/.

Once you find a client you like and decide you want to stick with it, you can install a server you like. Prosody, snikket, and ejabberd are the most well-regarded (and snikket is just a fork of prosody that’s designed to have a super easy setup; so realistically you’re down to a choice between two).

@sobchak @bagel You can also buy industrial microsd cards that are a bit better than consumer grade ones. That’s what I did after I managed to kill a consumer microsd card after about 6 months in a Pi 4b. The one I have (https://www.kingston.com/en/memory-cards/industrial-grade-microsd-uhs-i-u3) is rated for 1,920 TB written. That’s better than, say, a 2TB WD SN850X (1,200 TBW), and faaaar better than typical consumer microsd (Sandisk High Endurance appears to be 117 TBW, for example).

@libre_warrior @thelocalhostinger The fact is that we consider selfhosting somehow “special”, as opposed to “I’m just running this [ideally free & open] app that shares stuff with my friends”, is part of the problem. Damn you, IPv4 and NAT! *shakes fist*

@corsicanguppy @sonofearth People concerned about this kind of thing could sponsor distributions to create native packages. For example, hire a debian developer to package and include immich in debian.

I’ve personally been meaning to package navidrome for debian for several years now, but other things have taken priority.

@FreedomAdvocate @NewNewAugustEast You could just say “sorry, my bad,” you know. It’s pretty simple.

@muusemuuse You can use navidrome in jukebox mode, and then play stuff either using navidrome’s built-in web interface, or any number of subsonic clients. https://www.navidrome.org/docs/usage/jukebox/

@possiblylinux127 @A_norny_mousse ungoogled-chromium disables safe browsing, and for Debian’s chromium package I keep going back and forth about whether to pull that patch in or not.

@Alaknar @jali67 It is absolutely not cheaper. Monopolists have a tendency to raise prices once they corner the market. I took over maintenance of a journalism site and cut hosting costs roughly in half while increasing performance by switching from AWS to DigitalOcean.